extreme
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The powerful winds also battered northern France across the Channel as Europe battled its first big autumn storms of the year and experts warned of more extreme weather events because of global warming.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
In an era of extreme bullpen specialization, when seemingly every reliever has a prescribed role, Ashby has become an old-fashioned fireman befitting the Brewers’ throwback style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
The second category originated during the extreme temperatures reached inside the reactor.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
He shares concern over the ill-informed framing of Native people as responsible for extreme water use in the state.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Mr. Rochester’s extreme pallor had disappeared, and he looked once more firm and stern.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Higher prices caused by weather extremes are getting “more frequent … and extreme,” said Barchart’s Newsom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
This may seem to be uncomfortably topical in an era when the divide between extremes of poverty and wealth are much noted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"She went to the extremes, really, to get the feeling and the emotion I went through and the struggle."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Nature was part of him; its extremes were part of his very being.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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He was like his father, the old laird, but there glowed an extremer dark anger and power.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
He professed to like my supernatural beliefs much better than the anti-supernatural views of the extremer portion of his brethren.
From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker
Mr Senior had seen its essential principle, the right of subsistence, worked out farther—to extremer and more dangerous consequences—than perhaps any other political or social experiment, before the practical common sense of England interfered.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
It has as yet been practised by no poet at all approaching the first class, except Verlaine, and not by him in its extremer forms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
Of course control by the workers, as it was first introduced, led speedily to many absurdities and, much to the dissatisfaction of the extremer elements, has been considerably modified.
From Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome
The printing press, praised by Martin Luther as “God’s highest and extremest act of Grace,” led to the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation — and a century of bloody religious wars.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016
Now even the extremest obscenities have lost their power to shock.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013
The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had."
From Time Magazine Archive
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“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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In all the land no finer, firmer exemplar of elemental constancy could ever have been found to guide and cheer the Nation's course in this extremest test of elemental self-respect.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
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